Astronomy

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its futureCredit:…

Credit: Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. An international team of astronomers observed the star,…

Observations usher in new phase of research Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, blaze for a few milliseconds before vanishing without a trace. Their origins are unknown, and their appearance is unpredictable. In the decade following their…

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will convert starlight into electrical…

Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey archival image from March 2004 (top) and the image from the authors' observation campaign of the blazar, B2 1420+32, taken in January 2020 using ASAS-SN (bottom).... A University of Oklahoma doctoral…

Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: One-offs and repeaters BRIEFING NOTE: Researchers will announce these results at the 238th AAS meeting on Wednesday, June 9 at 12:15 p.m. E.D.T. Press…

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) and Dylan Nelson (Illustris-TNG). At the heart of almost every sufficiently massive galaxy there is a black hole whose gravitational field, although very intense, affects only a small region around the…

Researchers from the University of Arizona will present findings from radio-astronomical observations of organic molecules at the 238th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, or AAS, during a press conference titled "Molecules in…

Study of nearby galaxies gives new insights into star formation COLUMBUS, Ohio - Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding the dark and violent places where stars are born. Over the past five years, an international…

Study reveals that the makeup and life cycle of star-forming clouds is dependent on locationCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO) A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has…

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Credit: Video and narration by Luke Bouma, Princeton University It's hard to see more than a handful of stars from Princeton University, because the lights from New York City, Princeton and Philadelphia prevent our sky from ever getting…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA. An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the Gran…

Credit: Aditya Chowdhury A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman Research Institute (RRI), in Bangalore, has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to measure the…

Credit: Yasui et al. (2021) A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact of a small astronomical body could enable aqueous alteration (*1) and organic solid formation to occur on the…

Astronomers have measured very-high-energy gamma rays coming from the aftermath of a gamma ray burst - an enormously energetic explosion of a star in another galaxy. The results shine light on these immensely powerful but…

Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather predictionCredit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S. Yalim, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, and Nat Gopalswamy The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently…

Credit: Jill Naiman Jill Naiman, teaching assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a $506,912 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…

VLA reveals new details of protostellar jet Astronomers studying the fast-moving jet of material ejected by a still-forming, massive young star found a major difference between that jet and those ejected by less-massive young stars. The…

'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been…